How to Use immunodeficiency in a Sentence

immunodeficiency

noun

• The playwright’s conceit is to portray living with the immunodeficiency virus as a facet of a satirical contest — as if a human’s health could be trifled with, laughed off.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• The danger posed by serious catfights comes from the fact that deep wounds are one of the principal ways that feline leukemia and immunodeficiency disease are transmitted.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• The 58-year-old lawyer who lives in Phoenix has an immunodeficiency disease that increases his risk of severe outcomes from covid-19 and other infections.
  — Sam Whitehead, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023
• One of the first attempts came in 1990, when researchers at the National Institutes of Health treated two young girls with severe immunodeficiency caused by a missing enzyme.
  — Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• People who are sick, suffer from immunodeficiency disorders or those with open wounds should not go into the river.
  — Taryn Luna, sacbee, 21 Apr. 2018
• Once the campaign begins, first in line will be those over 65 years old, professionals whose jobs put them at high risk and those with pre-existing conditions such as obesity and immunodeficiency.
  — WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• According to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine , an autoimmune response---when your immune system attacks your own body---triggers the immunodeficiency.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2012
• With her son diagnosed with a life-threatening immunodeficiency disorder and her husband, Marco (Ivan Shaw) struggling with a gambling addiction and unable to get a visa, Thony is left to save the boy on her own.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• Lung disease, asthma, heart disease and, of course, immunodeficiency, are all risk factors for more serious cases.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Oct. 2021
• Consider feline immunodeficiency virus, which attacks cats’ immune systems and has a survival rate of 80% four to six years postinfection.
  — Matthew R. Bailey, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
• For people with primary immunodeficiency or advanced HIV, their immune systems may simply be unable to respond to the vaccine.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
• The cause is unknown, but is unrelated to alcohol, steroid use, hepatitis, or any kind of immunodeficiency disease.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Feb. 1999
• His approach could be further applied in autism or immunodeficiency research.
  — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
• Her condition falls under a category called primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDD), of which there are more than 200 forms.
  — Kira Peikoff, Cosmopolitan, 4 Aug. 2014
• Common variable immunodeficiency often has minimal symptoms, and many people have it and do not realize it.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2022
• That guidance was limited to those who have received organ or stem cell transplants, people with cancer, those with untreated HIV, primary immunodeficiency and patients on drugs that suppress immune response.
  — al, 4 Sep. 2021
• Wendy Halperin, 54, was diagnosed at age 28 with a condition called common variable immunodeficiency.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Kittel, who has suffered from recurrent bone infections since 2014 and receives treatment for an immunodeficiency, created the holiday lights and snowflake artwork.
  — Suzanne Pfefferle Tafur, NOLA.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Cats living with feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) often get overlooked at shelters.
  — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Sara Anne Willette, a data analyst in Ames, Iowa, has a condition called common variable immunodeficiency that keeps her from making certain types of protective antibodies.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2022
• Finding a safe place to live and work with common variable immunodeficiency — a condition that limits her body’s ability to produce antibodies and fight infections — is difficult outside of a pandemic.
  — NBC News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Others had more serious problems, such as feline leukemia or feline immunodeficiency virus.
  — Ken Palmer, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2017
• Today it is also prescribed for secondary immunodeficiency, which can occur when the body's immune system is compromised by viruses or treatments for cancer, although there may be other medicines for reinvigorating the immune system in those cases.
  — Julie Appleby, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• People with immunodeficiency diseases or severe liver disease, for example, should only do so with their doctor’s permission.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
• Plagued with chronic respiratory infections as a child, she was diagnosed at age 4 with primary immunodeficiency, a disorder that weakens the immune system.
  — Candace Jordan, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a real thing.
  — Michael O’Sullivan, star-telegram.com, 19 May 2017
• That includes people over 65 and those with underlying conditions such as obesity, kidney disease and immunodeficiency.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
• Because the virus can still replicate, certain people (particularly those with immunodeficiencies) may have severe reactions.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
• Simian immunodeficiency virus first arose in monkeys before transforming into HIV.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
• This undated electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows human immunodeficiency virus particles (virions).
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2017

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024